Volume 5, Number 5 (May 2007)

Letter from the Editor

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Steps Forward
Jamie H. Von Roenn, MD

Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois

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Bench to Bedside

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The Role of Saliva in Oral Health: Strategies for Prevention and Management of Xerostomia
Mary Elizabeth Brosky, DMD

Restorative Sciences-Prosthodontics, University of Minnesota School of Dentistry, Minneapolis

abstract full text 370 kb

 

PEER VIEWPOINT
A Critical Component of Supportive Care
Barbara A. Murphy, MD, Pain and Symptom Management Program, Vanderbilt Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee

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Original Research

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Oral Mucositis and Outcomes of Autologous Hematopoietic Stem-Cell Transplantation Following High-Dose Melphalan Conditioning for Multiple Myeloma
Montserrat Vera-Llonch, MD, MPH, Gerry Oster, PhD, Colleen M. Ford, BS, John Lu, PhD, and Stephen Sonis, DMD, DMSc

Policy Analysis Inc. (PAI), Brookline, Massachusetts; Department of Oral Medicine, Infection, and Immunity, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts; Division of Oral Medicine, Oral Maxillofacial Surgery, and Dentistry, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts; Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts; and Amgen Inc., Thousand Oaks, California

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A Study of Oncology Fellows' Training in End-of-Life Care
Mary K. Buss, MD, David S. Lessen, MD, Amy M. Sullivan, EdD, Jamie Von Roenn, MD, Robert M. Arnold, MD, and Susan D. Block, MD

Harvard Medical School and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts; Southeast Florida Hematology-Oncology Group, Fort Lauderdale, Florida; The Feinberg School of Medicine, Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois; University of Pittsburgh Medical School, Institute for Doctor-Patient Communication, University of Pittsburgh Hospital, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts

abstract full text 185 kb

How We Do It

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Balloon Kyphoplasty for Multilevel Spinal Metastases from Breast Cancer
Ronald A. Alberico, MD

Department of Diagnostic Imaging, Roswell Park Cancer Institute; Department of Diagnostic Imaging, Buffalo Children’s Hospital; and School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York

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